I like the new look for OpenSourceBistro.com. (especially the search function) What exactly is the "Bounty" thing at the bottom of the screen though? BTW it mentions MythTV but which one? And the one I see on sourceforge doesn't appear to have any files yet.

Hey, Daniel.Glad you liked the new look. That's where a lot of my spare time has been going. I got the idea of the bounty by seeing things like this..http://wii.qj.net/The-Wii-Linux-Bounty-Boot-Linux-on-Wii-win-500-bucks/pg/49/aid/90101or this...http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76696and considering the popularity of MythTV as an open source PVR, I though it a good place to start. I'll try and provide more details, when interested parties email. It will be interesting to see if anything gets going. Interesting but not the major focus. I hope to use the site for the primary purposes of 1) Spreading the word about VectorLinux (in a way it's a bit of a fan site, but I don't want it to look that way.) and 2) To provide easy to follow tutorials for any new Linux user.

I did a bit of an experiment with Twitter and identi.ca and microbloged a number of the tutorials with tag lines of 'linux' 'slackware' 'screencast' and 'Installing Virtual-Box' or whatever the topic was. It worked great, before the end of the week I was already getting more hits from Twitter than from the VectorLinux forums (where I'm just preaching to the converted). So I can at the very least see this spreading a little name recognition for VectorLinux.

Also, I'm trying to work up the diggs for the site on Digg.com. If anyones a member of digg search 'Vector Linux' and you'll see there is not a lot of articles with high digg numbers about Vector. again, Thanks for checking it out. Still lots of work to do.

Posted another tut, see the thread in the How to section.Making a comment here to say I followed through with kidd's suggestions. There is now a thread in LinuxQuestions.org plus I've now got 4 tut's up on Youtube, including this latest one. Viva la Vector!

Glad to help.If I ever put up a testimonial page I just might quote you.

Let me know if there are any topics you want me to try an make a tut' on.

I'd be honoured.

Between the tutorials at opensourcebistro.com and the vectorbie questions forum, there's nothing I haven't been able to get help with figuring out yet. Including that there's a good chance I should probably get a different video card. Vector linux is still running lightning fast here. I look forward to telling you when I get the quad core. I think I'll have a NVIDIA card in it.

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Little help please.Daniel sent me a message suggesting ndiswrapper would be a good tutorial, so I made one. Trouble is I really didn't know anything about ndiswrapper before I started, my wireless cards have all just worked so far.

So I was hoping some of the more experienced could watch the tutorial and let me know what I could add that would be beneficial to a newbie. (Include as much detail as possible.)

As you will see in the tutorial, everything goes well, right up to the new driver detecting the available wireless networks, but it will not connect. It may just be the card, but I want to make sure it's not an error in the tutorial.

The ndiswrapper video looks great, as do all your videos.In the wpa_supplicant driver section there is an ndiswrapper option, IIRC wext is still prefered but ndiswrapper may get you connected if wext does not.

I have a wireless usb device that (I checked) is supported by ndiswrapper and I followed the instructions in the tutorial to install the windows driver and activate the interface but when I entered "ifconfig wlan0 up", it gave me this error: wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device